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The US influence in Guyana
Dear Editor,
Something is happening between the USA representatives here and the Guyana Government and it does not augur well for the Granger administration. I read with total disbelief the message from Mr. Brian Hunt, as he called for the imprisonment of those found culpable of stealing the Guyanese tax payers’ money. He said that the current administration needs to press ahead with holding accountable those whom the audits have fingered. What, however, is troubling is that the US representative did not have to come out so public with those sentiments. Every layman knows that by the sheer dint of the powers of the USA over a fledgling, broke, backward country like Guyana, any emissary of America has unfettered access to any of our administrators.
Why then did Mr. Hunt think that he could come out so publically and seek to tell the government what the USA thinks it should do? Is it that the current administration is not listening to their “king maker”? Is it that they are acting too slowly for the liking of the super power? Is it that they are showing signs of governing like the last folks governed? Or, is it that they have proffered an explanation for the delay in the prosecutions that did not sit well with Uncle Sam?
I remembered when the USA wanted the last government to hold Local Government Elections. The PPP refused and the then USA envoy sought to interject the US wishes on the then administrators, by making his case public. It did not end well. Then Minister of Education, Mrs. Manikchan, acting on behalf of the Jagdeo-led Government (Mr. Ramotar was President), addressed the Ambassador in true PPPian style. Dr. Luncheon would later endorse the said dress down of the Ambassador, even terming it a “Feral Blast”.
Again, we have come to another such time. There is something preventing the Granger-led administration from pursuing those who have misappropriated the Guyanese’ people money and America is not pleased. Whatever it is that is preventing action of this government, it is sufficient to so paralyze them. What some are suggesting is that any significant arrest of the PPP elites will engender such a firestorm from Freedom House that is likely to disrupt the functions at the Office of the Presidency.
Names will be called, fingers will be pointed and secrets will be revealed that might implicate big-ups in the current administration. This would threaten the life of the new administration and weaken the government. The revelations might even be sufficient to trigger snap elections. Some of the accusations might not be true but by the time the lies are disproved and the investigations completed, the damage to the government would have already been done.
So the thinking is to just allow the audits to show how much billions were lost and stolen under the last administration, and by deduction, how much billions will be saved under this administration, and to let bygones be bygones.
Maybe this was told to the USA representatives in private and they are not willing to accept that reasoning. So the departing envoy, Mr. Brian Hunt, has decided to let the entire Guyanese public know what America wants the Granger administration to do, thereby, putting pressure on this Government, just like they did to the last Government.
Editor, every time the USA intervened in the elections of Guyana, it pleased the majority of Guyanese. They intervened in 1992 and again in 2015. However, by now the US should know that while they can assist in the removing and setting up of governments in Guyana, they are not allowed by the said governments to dictate how they should govern.
That being said, on behalf of all right-thinking Guyanese, I would like to thank Mr. Brian Hunt for his tour of duty to Guyana. I would also like to offer this little advice. That he packs his little tidy-whites neatly into his diplomatic pouch and leave Guyana quietly with his dignity intact, or become a victim of another “Feral Blast”, this time from someone in this current administration.
Pastor Wendell Jeffrey
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Perhaps, the evidence points to more mis-management than provabble corruption or some claims are overstated. Not sure if Mr. Hunt may have not overstepped his diplomatic duties in dealing with a minorityrace sociiety
Mr Wendell Jeffrey, this issue with audits and misappropriation of taxed dollars does not lie in the court of the US. The citizens of Guyana were made to suffer by those whom we entrusted to administer and manage. The ordinary citizen is taken before a magistrate or judge for his/ her allege misdemeanour. What justice are we administering when we allow those culpable to go free? Are you not trying to create a precident?
Every seems to have forgotton that last August, in KN, the same Mr. Hunt cautioned the Collation Government that these kinds of crime will be difficult to prove and will take time to prove. Now it seems that the same Hunt has accelerated his position, stating what needs to be done ASAP…????
They contribute heavily to Guyana – they have an obligation to speak up.